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From Siberia to the Sahara, Earth experiences an extensive range of temperatures. Records exist as high as 57°C and all the way down to -89°C. But what we consider extreme on Earth is average in space. On planets without an insulating atmosphere, temperatures wildly fluctuate between day and night.
Mercury regularly sees days around 449°C and and frigid nights as low as -171°C. And in space itself, some spacecraft experience temperature differences of 33°C just between their sunlit and shady sides. That would be like having a glass of water in the shade freeze on a hot summer day!